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The class Mammalia

by: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832, author

Publication date: 1827

Topics: Mammals

Publisher: London : Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Volume: v.1 [Mammalia] (1827)

5 volumes, [210] leaves of plates : 24 cm

Issued in 13 parts between 1824 and 1827, although the title page for each volume is dated 1827. See C.F. Cowan, "Notes on Griffith's Animal kingdom of Cuvier," Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History (1969), 5 (2):137-140

Volume 5 has title: Synopsis of the species of the class Mammalia, as arranged with reference to their organization, by Cuvier, and other naturalists, with specific characters, synonyma, &c. &c

Printer from verso of title page

Illustrators include C.H. Smith, J. Lewin, G. Forster and T. Landseer; engravers include M. Griffith, J. Basire, T. Bradley, H. Kearsley, T. Landseer, and J. Scott

Some plates name G. & W.B. Whittaker as publisher

"Preliminary sketch of the rise and progress of zoology"--Volume 1, pages [xiii]-lxxx

Includes bibliographical references

digitized BHLDP 20130430

extracted picklist 20081216

Addeddate: 2010-12-13 17:19:04

Associated-names: Griffith, Edward, 1790-1858; Pidgeon, Edward; Smith, Charles Hamilton; Landseer, Thomas, 1795-1880, ill; Basire, James, 1769-1835, engraver; Bradley, T., engraver; Clowes, William, 1779-1847, printer